Easter Thoughts and Miracles

Dear Little One,

Easter last week was a great bunch of fun. Your cousins Jonathan and Hannah really had a great time searching for the many Easter eggs that were hidden throughout Grandma Kent’s yard.

Your daddy actually helped hide a lot of those eggs, which made it even more fun to see how your cousins reacted when they saw some of them.

Here are some pictures of the hunt and the fun so you will have an idea what I’m talking about.

Your mommy spoke at church and shared some quotes from her favorite talk given by Elder Holland in the MTC about the Atonement and how life is hard at times because there is a certain price that has to be paid by us all. After that, she zoomed into Primary to fill in as chorister. You will love some of the songs that the Primary is working on right now. A couple of the songs are for Mother’s Day and the rest are for the Primary Sacrament Program that will happen just a month after you are born this coming fall.

Earlier this week your father was using a chainsaw at work and was injured. As he finished a cut, the saw caught and kicked back, hitting him in the face. We took him in to the emergency room and they referred us to an Ocuplastic Surgeon (eye surgeon) just 15 minutes away from the hospital. The surgeon was able to stitch your daddy’s eyelid using 15-20 stitches. Then he stitched daddy’s eyebrow and added a few on his cheek. We were told by both the doctor at the hospital and the surgeon that a higher power was at work in protecting your father. His eye was not touched or scratched in anyway. That kind of miracle doesn’t happen so often.

Anyhow, what could have been a much more serious and even fatal incident turned out to be something that will always remind both of your parents about how much Heavenly Father is watching over and protecting us. The most important thing we learned is that if you live right and do your best, come whatever may, you can get through it okay. Even if the incident had been worse, we both were given the calm needed to get daddy the help he needed. He is just grateful that he will be able to see you when you are born.